FEMA apologizes for tricking real reporters into listening in via conference call to a fake, staged news conference featuring FEMA employees posing as journalists.
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Banana Republicans
27 Oct 2007 04:36 pm
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“I hope readers understand we’re working very hard to establish credibility and integrity, and I would hope this does not undermine it.”
It's the thought that counts.
Ridiculous, and completely par for the course with these guys. Every last one of the people who participated in this should be fired. Of course, under these Banana Republicans, any punishment will be cosmetic.
Bush pardoned Libby! A convicted felon who broke the law while serving the administration and was still actively onstructing justice to hide other crimnals in the administration..and Bush gave him a "get out of jail free" card. Huh?
The entire modern Republican Party are a bunch of swaggering Banana Republicans. Bush is a cartoonish embarrassment, with his blustery "I'm a war president...I'm a peace president" nonsense and his constant attempt to leech the respect we give to accomplished military leaders by referring to himself in the third-person as "Commander-in-Chief"--a civilian position. It's doubly embarrassing when every strategic decision he's made as commander in chief has been an unmitigated catastrophe on the ground.
Really, what self-respecting person would be part of a PR stunt as ridiculous as the "mission accomplished" carrier landing? And how could he keep a straight face calling himself a co-pilot? He was a frigging PASSENGER, not a co-pilot, okay? All he had to do on that jet was not wet his pants and ruin the photo-op. Add to that his extensive collection of embroidered "C-I-C George Bush" military-casual shirts and jackets...I swear, is he opening a retail line of "Commander in Chief" jackets at K-mart after he leaves the White House? Because Martha Stewart is looking at him like "damn, I wish I'd thought of that." God, he's like a character in a B movie.
The next crop doesn't look much better, with Mitt "I'll double Guantanamo" Romney and Giuliani "yeah, my top guys are criminals and pedophiles, but I'm a tough guy who loves waterboarding, you America-hater! 9/11!"
I'm just wondering if Rudi goes back to the comb-over once he's in office. And if he'll have members of the media locked up if they dare ask him about it.
They're incompetent, they've never been to war but they love to wear soldier costumes, they're obessed with torture, they're self-aggrandizing, they love to start wars but don't have a clue how to win them and ignore the people who do, they surround themselves with corrupt sycophants, they're bankrupting the nation with reckless spending...a bunch of Banana Republicans.
It makes you wonder how anyone could believe that some element of government could have gotten away with taking out that Kennedy follow.
OK, OK, OK. I refuse to be sucked into a sophomoric comment like--This is "BUSH LEAGUE." Whew! Glad I avoided the temptation.
There is no incompetence. The Message was sent.
FEMA was used as a trial run for when the WH Press Room is stocked only with Washington Times & Faux News & WH staffers. Will the public be able to tell the difference? Will CNN cover the Bush Press Conferences when the NYT and WaPo are banned?
As far as I am concerned, we are there already. The WH Press Corps & MSM might as well be ringers.
I don't watch them now.
Why do these people still have jobs?
My understanding is the that the annual appropriation bill funding FEMA hasn't passed, but that funding is now by CR. Why not delete the jobs of all involved in this partisan atrocity from the next version of the CR, then the permanent fundign, while we have the chance? Sure, this nonsense was trivial in comparison to the real crimes the administration has gotten up to. But precisely because the matter is so trivial, and the administration weenies so obviously expendable, this would be an excellent training exercise for more serious uses to which the power of the purse ought to be put. In fact, the funding for all political positions throughout the Executive Branch should be held indefinitely on CRs of no more than two weeks duration, so that funding can be used to hold their feet to the fire as a permanent means of Congressional control.
We can't get rid of Bush and Cheney without 2/3 of the Senate, and 16 Republicans will never be found to turn on their leader. But we can wipe every single other officer and employee of the Executive Branch off the map simply by not letting funding bills with their positions re-authorized even get up for a vote. It would take simply the majority of the majority, in the House alone, to remove every single one of Bush and Cheney's henchpersons and minions, or to take control of their actions by keeping them on a short leash of credbily threatened removal.
Bob --
You forgot Jeff Gannon.
Who would have thought that we would someday look back at Michael Brown's tenure at FEMA and say: "He wasn't as bad as all that."? But really, did he ever pull something this inept? Not that I recall.
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Heh!
Posted by Big Tent Democrat | October 27, 2007 4:43 PM